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Esperimenti nella Laguna While surfing the web a long time ago I came across an image of this very subject, which struck me a lot. The author, Fred Vanderhaven, who received a well-deserved APOD for this job on June … …





Explanation: The image shows a region around globular cluster Messier 15 in Pegasus. 40,000 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, M15 also cataloged as NGC 7078 is one of the most densely packed globular star clusters in our Milky … …

Explanation: The emission nebula part of the new complex nebula IC 1396, the top and far northern hemisphere constellation Cepheus, is the backdrop to the imposing material column, long more than 20 light years and placed at about 3,000 light … …

Explanation: Messier 63 NGC 5055) larger galaxy about 100,000 A.L. a diameter of about 25 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici, also known as Sunflower due to the peculiar structure of its arms wide to the rich spiral … …
